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You know, I've been thinking about Amy been sent away during summer, together with the pressure of Lenny definitely moving together, that would be another step of growth for Sheldon, being really on his own for a while... Maybe he would appreciate his friends more (Howard and Raj) and missing Amy would speed up things between them.

I don't think it the writers will go through this path, but it would be interesting...

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Penny had a line where she talks about how she doesn't want those bad feelings (anxiety, depression and something else), but that she wants to sell drugs to other people who have those feelings.

When she's talking to the other women at the audition, the first girl is talking about how tough it is, and is complaining about the whole cattle call thing, but when her name is called she gets all perky and eagerly goes in. She and Penny knew each other from previous auditions, apparently. There's something about rumors going around. After she leaves, Penny is gleefully telling the other girl that she herself had started a rumor about another actress who had slept with 7 guys in order to get a part in Fast and Furious 6, and the girl says something like, "that actress was me". Oops!

I don't know if Penny might end up getting the part. She said that her audition "stank up the place", but from the other episode we know that Kevin Smith is a fan, so maybe he offers her the part anyway. I think that would be an interesting twist, making it harder for her to walk away. But there was no real hunt about it in this new episode.

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Raj comes in and talks about some Nasa project to communicate with potential aliens, the way voyager had that record. So he's on the team that is supposed to design a

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My guess would be they are talking about SETI which has NASA sponsorship.

 

http://www.seti.org/about-us

 

 

and http://www.seti.org/faq#obs1

 

 

SETI is an acronym for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. It is an effort to detect evidence of technological civilizations that may exist elsewhere in the universe, particularly in our galaxy. There are potentially billions of locations outside our solar system that may host life. With our current technology, we have some ability to discover evidence of cosmic habitation, and in the specific case of our SETI experiments to find beings that are at a technological level at least as advanced as our own.

 

Anyway, nice to have another voyager reference. It was also referenced in The Exhibition Approximation. My previous comment

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Hey I have a question, do we ever know anything about when set is closed? With all the secrecy from the cast and crew it made me curious to know if maybe they were doing something sneaky.

 

It may have been nothing but fatigue and distraction.

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there is pathetic leonard again.. can't even eat what he likes... no backbone at all...

and penny does not even want his advice... awful couple....recipe for disaster....

no redeeming qualities in leonard are present... penny should break up with him....

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there is pathetic leonard again.. can't even eat what he likes... no backbone at all...and penny does not even want his advice... awful couple....recipe for disaster....no redeeming qualities in leonard are present... penny should break up with him....

there is pathetic leonard again.. can't even eat what he likes... no backbone at all...and penny does not even want his advice... awful couple....recipe for disaster....no redeeming qualities in leonard are present... penny should break up with him....

I know, after this season, it makes you wonder why they are still together.

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I know, after this season, it makes you wonder why they are still together.

no , it makes me wonder why penny is still with leonard... it's pretty clear to me that she does not love him....

anyway I think the two main *relationships* on this show are like this...

one dominant according to whom the relationship runs and the other doormat who will take all the crumbs the others throw at them.....

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no , it makes me wonder why penny is still with leonard... it's pretty clear to me that she does not love him....

anyway I think the two main *relationships* on this show are like this...

one dominant according to whom the relationship runs and the other doormat who will take all the crumbs the others throw at them.....

 

I disagree that they don't love each other. I think that the little things show how much Leonard loves Penny and she loves him back.

The way they get along so well, how much they love each other's ideas, and how comfortable they are when they are alone sitting on the couch. How she mocks him and he does the same, that is something that just couples with long term relationships have. They feel secure enough to laugh at their weaknesses and still be ok with each other. I don't know why people are so worried about them, they clearly are a stable and in love couple. Little arguments, fights and disagreements are things that happen to every couple, but the way they deal with that and solve their problems is what makes the difference. 

 

And I won't even mention about Sheldon not loving Amy, I guess the whole season was to reassure they are meant to be together and how much they love each other. 

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oh and i forgot to mention the sex seems to pretty awful in case of leonard and penny...said so or implied so by penny herself... A number of times too....

and in case of sheldon and amy... well amy is still dreaming...that too since a long long long time....

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I agree Leonard has been pathetic this season. The writers have ruined the character he has no say or input in anything. He let's Sheldon & Penny and even the other's now boss him around. He is like a puppet on a string. No backbone, no confidence never sticks up for himself. Why have the writers decided to go down this road with a main character is beyond me, also beginning to wonder why they are together. I say this with a piece of my heart broken but Leonard needs to move on if Penny can't sit down with her fiance to discuss things and lying to him about her earning, wanting to go on holiday without him. Basically treating him like shit. Its begs the question? Why the hell are they together. This is not a healthy relationship IMO. The writers need to remind us what penny loves about Leonard because we haven't seen much of it this season I mean when was the last time she told Leonard she loves him. Oh I know S6 final. It's so sad to see one of your favourite characters treated in this way. :(

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Karyshamy, you are right, on the little things they are okay, but those things are not the things needed for a long term relationship or marriage. Like Vasu says, Penny does treat him like a doormat, and he is especially pathetic in the way he responds to it this season, and yes she has always said the sex with him isn't great. Tonstar17 is right too, she won't talk money with him, she can't picture going on holiday with him (Are they going on separate honeymoons?), she doesn't listen to any advice from him (she goes to other people, mostly Sheldon) and she won't even plan or address a wedding. Why the hell are these two people engaged or even in a long term relationship? Remember i am a Lenny shipper and their relationship to me now just seems unnatural.

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Karyshamy, you are right, on the little things they are okay, but those things are not the things needed for a long term relationship or marriage. Like Vasu says, Penny does treat him like a doormat, and he is especially pathetic in the way he responds to it this season, and yes she has always said the sex with him isn't great. Tonstar17 is right too, she won't talk money with him, she can't picture going on holiday with him (Are they going on separate honeymoons?), she doesn't listen to any advice from him (she goes to other people, mostly Sheldon) and she won't even plan or address a wedding. Why the hell are these two people engaged or even in a long term relationship? Remember i am a Lenny shipper and their relationship to me now just seems unnatural.

I see what you are saying and you make some good points but about the wedding The Producers have said they are no rush to have them get married. So in a way no wedding planning this season doesn't surprise me

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Thanks for the report, Phanta! It sounds like a great episode. Guys doing nerdy stuff, Leonard complaining about Sheldon, Penny discussing something serious with Sheldon and end up getting annoyed... just like the good old times.

I didn't like the alien part though, too unrealistic for me.

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